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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Hints for Quiz Tomorrow (Chapter 19)

Quiz is on Chapter 19 tomorrow

There will be 20 Multiple Choice questions and 2 SA


Make sure you focus on the following:

Content: Spielvogel
Background and Causes of the French Revolution
Course of the French Revolution: Pages 571-585
Different governments during the Revolution and their accomplishments
Different political groups (Jacobins, Girondins, The Mountain, Sans-Culottes)
Key Events (Bastille, Women's March, Tennis Court Oathe, The Terror, etc)
Key Areas of Rebellion: (Map on Page 578)
Republic of Virtue
The Directory
Age of Napoleon: (Accomplishments/Stages of warfare)

Sources (Spielvogel)
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen: Spielvogel (574-575)/Sherman: Pages 59-60
Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen: Spielvogel (574-575)/Sherman: 60-61
De-Christianization (Page 583)
Napoleon and Psychological Warfare (Page 588)
Map 19.3
Painting on page 589 and 592)

Sources (Sherman)
PRIMARY
1. What is the Third Estate? (Sieyes)
2. The Terror Justified (Robespierre)
3. Memoirs: Napoleons Diary (Remusat)
3. Napoleon's Diary (Napoleon)
VISUAL
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)
SECONDARY
Coming of the French Revolution (Lefebvre) VS. Revolution of Notables (Sutherland)
Loaves and Liberty (Graham)
Evaluation of the French Revolution (Doyle)
Secondary Sources (French Rev and Napoleon)
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution (Lyons)
Women and the Napoleonic Code (Smith)


Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Hints for Test on Chapters 17 and 18

TEST IS ON THURSDAY

You will have 90 minutes to complete

1. 30 prompt based multiple choice
2. 4 SA's

***=Pay special attention to

Concepts to focus on
Chapter 17: The Enlightenment
--How Locke and Newton influenced
--Deism
***Significant Philosophes: Kant, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Hume, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Beccaria, Smith, Condorcet, and Holbach
***The Woman's Question in the Enlightenment
--Influence of the Salon
--Art, Music, Literature (Rococo, NeoClassicism)
-High vs. Popular Culture
-Significance of Carnival
-John Wesley and Methodism

Chapter 18: 
-Enlightened Absolutism (Arguments for and against)
-Enlightened Monarchs (Catherine, Frederick, Joseph II)
***Wars and Diplomacy: Pages 543-547 (War of Austrian Succession, 7 years War, Nature of Warfare, Peace of Aix-la-Chappelle, Treaty of Paris)
***Social History (Population, Family, Marriage, Birthrate Patterns)
-Agricultural Revolution (550-551)
-Significance of Cottage Industry vs. New Methods
***Social Order of the 18th Century (Peasants and Nobility)
-Significance of the Grand Tour
-The Problem of Poverty

Sources to be familiar with
SHERMAN
***What is Enlightenment?: (40) Kant
System of Nature: (41) Holbach
Encyclopedia (41-42) Diderot
***The Philosophe (42-43)
English Model (43-44) Voltaire
Vindication of the Rights of Women (44-45): Wollstonecraft
Age of Reason: Deism (44-45): Paine
Social Contract (45-46) Rousseau
Visual Source: (30-31): Happy Accidents of the Swing
***Visual Source: Page 46-47: Frontispiece of the Encyclopedia
Visual Source: (48): Experiment with an Air Pump
Visual Source: (48): Propaganda and the Enlightened Monarch
Secondary Source (51): Women in Salons
***Secondary Source (51-52): The Problem of Enlightened Absolutism

SPIELVOGEL
***Map on Page 506
Separation of Powers: Page 507
***The Ignorant Philosopher: Page 509
Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville: Page 510
A Social Contract: Page 512
***Opposing Viewpoints: Page 514
Women and the Enlightenment Salon: Page 515
The Broken Man: Page 522
The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley: Page 528
The French Kings Bedtime: Page 534
***Map on Page 536
Frederick the Great and his Father: Page 538
***Opposing Viewpoints: Page 540
British Victory in India: Page 546
Marital Arrangements: Page 548
***Painting: Children of the Upper Classes: Page 549
Impact of Agricultural change: Page 552
Beginnings of Mechanized Industry: Page 554
Aristocratic Way of Life: Page 557
Poverty in France: Page 560


Thursday, November 2, 2017

Hints: Quiz on Chapter 15 (Monday)

Quiz on Chapter 15 will be on Monday

It will include 15 Multiple Choice
and 1 long essay (you will have the option to choose from 2)

***Make sure you review the Long Answer Rubric linked to the blog****
as well as the Long Answer that you took 1st quarter that I gave feedback on


To be successful on this quiz: Review the following concepts

Witchcraft Craze
Causes of 30 Years War
Significance of Treaty of Westphalia
Political Centralization of Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries
The Practice of Absolutism (Cardinals and Louis XIV)
Wars of Louis XIV
Decline of Spain and Rise of Brandenburg/Austria
Reign of Peter the Great
Significance of the Ottoman Empire
Why Was Poland Weak?
Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
***Pages 462-467 (England and the Emergence of Constitutional Monarchy)
Flourishing of European Culture (Mannerism, Baroque, Dutch Realism, Shakespeare)
Locke vs. Hobbes


Sources to be familiar with:
---Spielvogel
Map 15.1 (Page 440) and Map 15.2 (Page 450) and Map 15.6 (Page 458)
Source on Page 454
Painting on Page 455 (Peter the Great as Victor)
Oliver Cromwell: 3 Perspectives (Page 464)
English Bill of Rights (Page 467)
---Sherman
Visual Sources: Leviathan, Maternal Care
Secondary Sources: Absolutism: Myth and Reality, English Revolution, Early Modern Family




"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
Napoleon

The French Revolution

The French Revolution

Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck